About the Systematic Review Data Repository

In an effort to reduce the burden of conducting systematic reviews, researchers and developers at the Brown University Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) (previously at Tufts Medical Center), with support from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), have developed a collaborative, Web-based repository of systematic review data. This resource serves as both an archive and data extraction tool and is shared among organizations and individuals producing systematic reviews worldwide, enabling the creation of a central database of systematic review data which may be critiqued, updated, and augmented on an ongoing basis. This database is freely accessible to facilitate evidence reviews and thus improve and speed up policy-making with regards to healthcare.

The benefits of an open systematic review data repository include: improved access to data by consumers of review evidence, a promotion of transparency and reliability in the systematic review process via communal review, enhanced cooperation and utilization across related resources (such as ClinicalTrials.gov), and a more efficient means of producing and updating systematic reviews. Such an archive would also facilitate other novel avenues of inquiry, such as those investigating research methodology (e.g., comparing different types of outcomes across disciplines, or comparing methodological quality of studies based on funding sources) by concentrating relevant data into one readily available resource.

SRDR Annual Reports

The Systematic Review Data Repository has experienced significant growth since it was released to the public in June 2012. The following reports, released on an annual basis, proceed to record the growth of SRDR. We invite you to download these reports in a PDF format using the links below.

Senior Scientist, Clinical Epidemiology Program
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Associate Professor, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada

Karen A. Robinson, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Johns Hopkins University EPC
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Baltimore, MD

Ida Sim, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Co-Director of Biomedical Informatics of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute
UCSF School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA

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